Institutional Dental Care, Inc.

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living facilities

IDC has created a patient flow system for Nursing Homes and Assisted Living facilities where the Intake of patients is follow by a MDS Nursing Triage system which is follow by maximized utilization nursing staff. We have also created a computer base system to gather our patient’s personal information which is updated on every dental evaluation.

Physician/ Dentist utilization

• What do the doctor’s know of the regulations that nursing homes/ assisted living facilities?
• What is the stability of the physician/ dentist contract personnel?
• Do these critical staff members affect other staff performances & nursing home/ assisted living evaluations?

The future of Physicians/ Dentist care in Nursing Homes/ Assisted Living facilities

• Decrease in supply of practitioners
• Decrease reimbursement for all services
• Increase in student loan obligations will affect practice choices
• Specialty services such as dental, dermatology, OB GYN, and others will experience this decrease first

Overview

IDC wants you to consider the follow as an overview:

• As Health Care programs strive to reduce cost and maintain/ increase services, the Gold Standard to monitor must remain patient focused:

1.      Outcome

2.      Process- Procedures that are follow

3.      Outcomes- Is the individual/ population healthier?

·        State / County Survey & Certification (Medicaid/ Medicare)

·        Quasi Private organizations (JCAHO)

·        Are you wasting resources?

1.      Efficient use of human resources is a must

2.      Physician/ Dentist time is the most costly

3.      IDC Health Status and Treatment indicator takes the theory of quality of care to practical reality.

4.      Will your institution be able to operate in the pending era of limited health manpower?

·        Features and Benefits

1.      Outcome Measures of Health can how be used.

                                            I.      Program evaluation

                                         II.      Program monitoring

                                       III.      Program operations (use of resources)

·        Application

1.      The IDC Outcome based system performs the work of many and keeps your consulting physicians happy and efficient. This enables us to:

                                      I.            Avoid wasting valuable clinical time

                                   II.            Maintain concise encounter record

                                 III.            Allows for recall efficiencies

·        Specifications

1.      IDC provides for the provision of basic Dental Services

2.      IDC personnel collects the encounter for designated specialist such as:

                                      I.            Ophthalmologists

                                   II.            Dermatologists

                                 III.            Psychiatrists

                                IV.            Other as specified